SnakeLegs

I saw in Popular Science today that someone (Logitech or Kensington?) has a wireless keyboard with a battery life of three years.  Pretty good.  And then I thought, why not just use the energy of the person pressing the keys — I’d think there’s enough force applied that it could keep a battery charged for [...]

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I’m 35 and part of “Generation X” — the group of something-somethings who weren’t supposed to have any ambition other than paying for the Social Security and debt of the Selfish Generation.
The current generation, I dub “Generation Nod.”  They are forever looking down.  At the phones.  Texting.  Playing portable games.  They never look up.  An [...]

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Choco 2.0 is out.   Open-source constraint satisfaction, written in Java, and business-friendly BSD-licensed.
It’s the Holy Grail of computing.

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   MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.BitmapCacheSize    = 48000
   MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.BitmapVirtualCacheSize = 48

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Might as well use the cache — that’s what it’s there for.  Like Vista’s Superfetch, or XP’s prefetch, or precompiling JSPs, or what have you.
For example, to load up your squid http proxy cache, just run:
 wget -r -nd -H –delete-after http://your.portal.company.local/
or
 wget -r -nd -H –delete-after -i some_file_with_URLs.html
wget’s –no-cache will force the proxy to download fresh [...]

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